Wallace Shawn will embark on a remarkable theatrical double venture this winter at the Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow Street): performing his Obie Award-winning solo masterwork, The Fever, in repertory with the previously-announced world premiere of his latest play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days. Shawn, will perform in The Fever two times a week, Sunday and Monday evenings, beginning Monday, February 16, while What We Did Before Our Moth Days — directed by Shawn’s longtime collaborator André Gregory — runs concurrently.
In The Fever, a nameless narrator, confined to a squalid hotel room inside a poor nation, lies feverish as political repression takes place just outside his window. While he recovers, he starts to question his own privilege and in particular his complicity, as he grapples with the stark realities of inequality and human suffering.